Why the &#**### is California putting Amber Alerts on a porn site?

That kind of choice is quite unusual in the US.

Think of it like Hitler and Stalin splitting up Poland

In particular, its a failure of state utilities commissions, which have power over electric pricing.

We do. And it prevents about 80% of cases for people who get the vaccine. Having mosquito control, a vaccine, and a treatment would be better than having only the first two. But it takes money to do a phase 3 trial of a drug, and its hard to get private funding for studies like that when a disease mostly impacts poor people

Realistically you need to get them banned.

Get flock banned at a local level.

Get to protests on a bicycle or a bus. Carpool if you must.

Somehow read that as a snail onion

They’re using it to fill out regulatory paperwork instead of making sure they satisfy the requirement that you establish actual knowledge about the plant to be built to show that it is safe

From xkcd

Better ad targeting does make ads more valuable…but because only Google and Facebook have the visibility and ML to do it effectively, they wound up with all the ad revenue. Everybody else ended up with a few pennies

I’m a bit sympathetic to them — they do need to get paid to keep operating, and ads don’t cover the cost of providing news anymore

They dont let sites opt-out, and they do a much more seamless job of enabling people to archive paywalled content

If there’s an edit that alters a detail that doesn’t matter to the witness, it probably isn’t important. And that kind of replacement is hard to do at scale without getting caught.

What you end up stuck doing is deciding to trust particular sources. This makes it a lot harder to establish a shared reality

Tibetan Plateau, about 14,000 feet

Tesla robotaxis had a string of crashes their first day

There is a very large safety difference between Waymo and Tesla robotaxis right now.

With the UK, they can block content that’s known to be NSFW. With Mississippi, they get fined if kids access the site at all if somebody else on there sees something NSFW.

My understanding is that it applies to every site which hosts any NSFW content, whether or not minors can access it